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What do you use your iPad for?
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I got mine yesterday so I'm not sure yet. Right now just playing with web browsing and email. I installed Dropbox, Remote for my Apple TV, and all the apps that I had installed on my iPod Touch. The apps for the touch are low rez so they're obviously not looking very sharp when in the X2 mode . Looking to replace them with iPad specific apps...
Internet
Twitter
Netflix
ABC video player
Take attendance and keep track of lessons with a numbers document (I am a teacher.)
Angry birds HD and other games
Use the remote app to control my AppleTV
Email
Calendar
Ebook reader -- both kindle and iBook app
Light word processing with pages
YouTube
Use 2Screen app to hook up iPad to projector and then project safari onto screen.
Keynote presentations -- simple, basic ones.
This is just a few of the things I use the iPad for. It has replaced my Macbook for about 90% of the things I do. The only things I use the MacBook for are iMovie and GarageBand and more in depth keynote presentations.
Netflix
ABC video player
Take attendance and keep track of lessons with a numbers document (I am a teacher.)
Angry birds HD and other games
Use the remote app to control my AppleTV
Calendar
Ebook reader -- both kindle and iBook app
Light word processing with pages
YouTube
Use 2Screen app to hook up iPad to projector and then project safari onto screen.
Keynote presentations -- simple, basic ones.
This is just a few of the things I use the iPad for. It has replaced my Macbook for about 90% of the things I do. The only things I use the MacBook for are iMovie and GarageBand and more in depth keynote presentations.
A couple of weeks ago, I was using it for navigation on a sailboat in Turkey. 
Our boat also had marine GPS/Chart plotter on board, but the iPad with the Navionics app was just as accurate and far easier to use. I just kept it in a zip-lock bag to protect it from a splash.
I was also running MiWi (requires jail break), so my ipad served as a WiFi hotspot providing an internet connection for the other crew members with smart-phones and laptops. (I was the only one with a local 3G plan.)
I also ran a spreadsheet to handle the accounting for the cruise. Of course, I was also using it for email, movies, browsing, etc. Oh, and Photos - I used the CCK to load the pictures we were taking along the way, so we could view them on a nice screen.
On dry land, the MotionX GPS Drive HD app is also great for navigating the roads.
It is indeed a magical device.
Our boat also had marine GPS/Chart plotter on board, but the iPad with the Navionics app was just as accurate and far easier to use. I just kept it in a zip-lock bag to protect it from a splash.I was also running MiWi (requires jail break), so my ipad served as a WiFi hotspot providing an internet connection for the other crew members with smart-phones and laptops. (I was the only one with a local 3G plan.)
I also ran a spreadsheet to handle the accounting for the cruise. Of course, I was also using it for email, movies, browsing, etc. Oh, and Photos - I used the CCK to load the pictures we were taking along the way, so we could view them on a nice screen.
On dry land, the MotionX GPS Drive HD app is also great for navigating the roads.
It is indeed a magical device.
All the usual things like web browsing, e-mail, casual gaming etc. Then I also use it as my organizer for college and use evernote to write up notes in class. It's pretty much the only gadget I use now as its replaced my mobile needs that i had with my iPhone and got me away from sitting at my iMac for everything other than GarageBand and Xcode.
Casual Surfing when I wake up in the morning
E-mail when I leave my MBP at home
Checking the Weather
Reading news on USA Today
E-mail when I leave my MBP at home
Checking the Weather
Reading news on USA Today
Surfing the internetz
Taking notes in lectures
Alarm clock
Reading books
And I bring it with me, instead of taking the MacBook everywhere. Like I used to.
Taking notes in lectures
Alarm clock
Reading books
And I bring it with me, instead of taking the MacBook everywhere. Like I used to.
Everything I use my desktop and laptop for except Photoshop and Lightroom processing of RAW photo files and when I use Excel for our books. That includes reading multiple newspapers, news sites, forums (Safari), movies, Youtube, reading books and magazines, uploading photos and videos (create/edit videos with Reel director), word processing, move things from computer to Ipad and vice versa with Dropbox, games, music (Pandora or Rhapsody-I keep my music library on my Touch)---and on and on. I have found very few reasons to boot desktop or laptop and I carry the Ipad almost all the time. I didn't realize I would use it for 99% of my computer use---and actually use it for more than I use my computer. I never watched movies or read books on it, for instance.
Diane
Diane
My iPad is to me what my teenage daughter's cell phone is to her!
I use the iPad far more and for more things then I use the computer, even before I had the iPad. Never used the computer for reading books/magazines, personal organizing, grocery/todo lists, playing games, twitter.
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I use mine for work mostly -- taking notes, storing and reviewing reference materials, showing mockups and prototypes to clients, etc.
I'm a wiki-holic, and use the iPad to update work and personal wikis. I use a personal wiki as a kind of GTD organizer for my various projects and to-dos. With the iPad I can basically add to or update any of the wikis where ever I'm at.
I use Numbers a lot, for invoicing, project timelines, expense tracking. I use Goodreader a lot for accessing various PDF and website archives. I use Pages now and then for contracts, and letters.
I also do most everything I did on my MacBook as far as music, video, web browsing, etc.
My iMac is still used for software and web developement. But I generally have the iPad open next to it, checking mockups, and updating wiki project entries as I go.
The iPad has really become a big part of my productivity tool kit.
I use mine for work mostly -- taking notes, storing and reviewing reference materials, showing mockups and prototypes to clients, etc.
I'm a wiki-holic, and use the iPad to update work and personal wikis. I use a personal wiki as a kind of GTD organizer for my various projects and to-dos. With the iPad I can basically add to or update any of the wikis where ever I'm at.
I use Numbers a lot, for invoicing, project timelines, expense tracking. I use Goodreader a lot for accessing various PDF and website archives. I use Pages now and then for contracts, and letters.
I also do most everything I did on my MacBook as far as music, video, web browsing, etc.
My iMac is still used for software and web developement. But I generally have the iPad open next to it, checking mockups, and updating wiki project entries as I go.
The iPad has really become a big part of my productivity tool kit.